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Labels on the front of the warp core.

radoskal

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Hi everyone, for some time now me and some acquaintances of mine have been working to 3D print/build a scale model of the TNG warp core for a Star Trek fan production

you can see some stills of it here

https://hackaday.io/project/924-star-trek-warp-core/log/2059-on-the-set

Anyway, we want the model to be pretty detailed and so we've been trying to replicate as many of the little touches that the actual Galaxy Class warp core prop had as we can. Which brings me to my question.

On the Dilithium chamber in the show several warning labels are visible. as seen in the screen shot below. One just above the dilithium chamber two on the sides and one below. However, no matter what I try I can't for the life of me figure out what they say. Screencaps of the warp core from both the DVD's and Blu-rays of TNG where the labels are visible often have them too far away or too blurred into the background to be readable, and I haven't been able to find any supplemental materials that might enlighten me as to what they say.

Not the technical manual, not the encyclopedia, not the blueprints, nothing. So I'm reaching out to you guys. I know it's likely a whole bunch of random Okudagram gobbledygook which we were never meant to make out clearly, but if anyone knows what's on these labels, our warp core prop would really appreciate it. Not to mention myself and the rest of our team.

Thanks everyone!

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Tough call. Unless Mike Okuda or Rick Sternbach are poking through the forums, I'm not sure there's an answer out there.

There was a toy engineering set in the Playmates line that might have something useful?
 
``BREACH WARP CORE - DO NOT PRESS''

(LaForge: ``Why do we even have that button?'')
 
Screenshot from "Where No One Has Gone Before"
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Checked the old TNG Technical Manual and the screenshot below has the top and left markings removed.
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Reached out to Rick Sternbach for some insight:

"No way to tell unless there's a nice closeup in an episode. I wasn't the keeper of the labels, so I can only guess that there's a main headline talking about the warp core, and usually
all the small type was basically a long string of numbers and spaces. Since the set bits were often repainted, the labels were swapped out, sometimes with similar but not exactly the same labels."
 
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Obviously the Enterprise is not powered by dilithium. It is powered by the Triforces of Power, Wisdom and Courage. ;)
 
off the top of my head the episodes that feature close up of the intermix chamber: Booby Trap, Relics, Drumhead, Galaxy's Child and Timescape.

Also possibly Phantasms.
 
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